Hey, ugly, over here.

(as he grabs and then pulls a droid toward him with the force)
“Hey, ugly, over here.” – Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

Our house was originally painted cream and mint. Mint. You cannot possibly imagine how hideous this is. Padawan Learner and I were away most of the day working at the CSA and swimming with some friends so we only saw a little bit of the aluminum siding tear down, but when we pulled up in front of the house this afternoon it shocked me. I mean completely shocked me. I managed to get out something really insightful like, “Wow.” The lead on the tear down crew responded with, “I know! I didn’t think it could get any uglier but it did!”

On a positive note, the tear down has brought our neighbors out in force to look at the spectacle. Most everyone starts the conversation with, “Nice color.” One neighbor with the same exact house design as ours even started to cannibalize our upstairs windows for his house, replacing some of his storm windows with ours and keeping the others for spares. He got most of the storm units removed before the sun went down. He’s also going to “upgrade” some of his sashes that have cracked panes of glass or warped frames once our new windows arrive and the old sashes are taken out . I’m glad they can get some use out of them until they can afford to replace the rest of their windows too.

One not so cool thing was that they accidentally filled Padawan Learner’s cold air return vent with insulation. Oops. Shredded cellulose insulation makes a huge mess when it plops into an open box-shaped space, for.your.information. Good thing I didn’t dust yesterday after all. They sucked it back out, but oh.baby does that stuff travel.

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